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German agricultural scientist (born 1963)
Prof. Frank Ewert (2016)
Frank Ewert (born 1963) is a German agricultural scientist, Scientific Director of the
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Professor of Crop Production at the
University of Bonn .
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His areas of expertise include crop science, production ecology, systems analysis, and plant growth modelling. His work focuses on sustainability and impact assessments of the influence of
climate change on crop production systems,
food security , and resource conservation.
Professional career
Ewert studied agricultural sciences at the
University of Rostock (Germany) from 1983 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993 doctoral studies followed at the University of Rostock. He continued his scientific career in 1995 as a research associate at the
Long Ashton Research Station of the
University of Bristol and the
Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) in the UK. From 1995 to 2002, Frank Ewert worked as an Assistant and Associate Research Professor at the Department of Agricultural Sciences,
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University , later at the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark. From 2002 to 2008, he was a senior scientist at the Department of Plant Sciences at
Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
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In 2008, he was called to the
University of Bonn , where he has since been Professor of Crop Science at the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES). There, he also leads the working group on crop production.
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Effective March 1, 2016, Frank Ewert took over as Scientific Director at the
Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in
Müncheberg near Berlin. He was granted leave of absence from the University of Bonn to perform this function.
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In 2002 and 2012 Frank Ewert received calls from the
Technical University of Munich (Professorship of Organic Agriculture) and the
University of Reading (Professor of Crop Science), which he did not accept.[
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Current memberships
Spokesman of the NFDI4Agri consortium (National Research Data Infrastructure for Agricultural Sciences)
Member of the Scientific Group of the UN Secretary-General’s 2021 Food Systems Summit
Chair of the Supervisory Board of Research Programme LIL (Land-Innovation Lausitz)
Member of the "Research Steering Committee“ for the
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Member of the International Advisory Board of the PE&RC Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation,
University of Wageningen
Co-chair and member of the international organizing committee of the International Crop Modelling Symposium, iCROPM 2016 and iCROPM 2020
Member of the Steering Group of the
DFG Excellence Cluster „PhenoRob“
Member of the AgMIP Leaders Forum
Co-chair of the Wheat Initiative's Working Group on Plant Modeling
Chairman of the consortium council of the program „WIR Land Innovation Lausitz“ (
BMBF )
Member of the editorial board of various journals, a. o. “Field Crops Research”, “European Journal of Agronomy”, “
Nature Scientific Reports ”, "Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (SESMO)" and in the past (2002-2015)
“Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment”
Awards
Research Award for Foreign Specialists, administered by the National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Highly Cited Researcher 2016 (Web of Science)
Highly Cited Researcher 2017 (Web of Science)
Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (Web of Science)
Highly Cited Researcher 2019 (Web of Science)
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Highly Cited Researcher 2020 (Web of Science)
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Highly Cited Researcher 2021 (Web of Science)
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Highly Cited Researcher 2022 (Web of Science)
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Publications
External links
Selection of media contributions, interviews and panel discussions
Selection of lectures
Welcome Note von Prof. Frank Ewert (ZALF) @ 62nd session of the GPW (Berlin 2019) (06.01.2020)
PhenoRob seminar with Frank Ewert (14.06.2019)
100 Years Long-Term Field Experiments at Rothamsted Research , Rothamsted, Invited Plenary Note 21–23 May 2018 (from minute 16.16 on)
Interdrought-V Internationale Konferenz, Invited Plenary Keynote . Hyderabad, India. 21–25 February 2017
iCropM2016, International Conference.
Welcome Note and
Summary . Berlin. 2016
Climate Smart Agriculture, International Conference, Invited Plenary Key Note UC Davis, USA, 20.3.2013 (from minute 35 on)
ESA Congress, Invited Planery Keynote. "Will agriculture be able to adapt to climate change and at which scale can we act?" Montpellier, France, 2010
References